Their theory prevents a person traveling back in time, but sending messages back might be possible. What message would you send to your younger self if you could?
One of the major goals of the [Large Hadron Collider] is to find the elusive Higgs boson: the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons, neutrons and electrons have mass. If the collider succeeds in producing the Higgs boson, some scientists predict that it will create a second particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time.
According to Weiler and Ho’s theory, these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past.
“One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes,” Weiler said. “Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example. However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future.”
The test of the researchers’ theory will be whether the physicists monitoring the collider begin seeing Higgs singlet particles and their decay products spontaneously appearing. If they do, Weiler and Ho believe that they will have been produced by particles that travel back in time to appear before the collisions that produced them.
We don’t know what we don’t know. One thing I have learned though, is never say never.
It’s the go/come paradox. Once you go, you can never come. Back that is.
Hawking just said time travel to the past is impossible because of “feedback” in the form of cosmic rays. Same kind of feedback as exists with microphones and speakers which was a nice effective demonstration except that such feedback does exist? THAT analogy demonstrates that time travel to the past is possible but would blow everything up, whatever that would mean in a multi-dimensional way.
I guess thats another paradox.
I sent myself a message that said not to read this post. Like the rebel asshole I am I ignored it and read it anyway. damn.
#36 Monster’s Lawyer, I always knew you were a rebel. At a time several years ago when the public seemed to take the side of an adorable little girl threatening seemingly justified violence against a monster, you represented the monster and asserted his inherent right to try to scare her. That took guts, and just maybe changed a few minds 😉
#37 Gary – Ah yes, those were the good old days. You’ll be glad to know that the monster is working out his final days of employment before retiring. He’s thinking about being a Walmart Greeter when he retires just to keep in practice.
Can’t send information to the past. Maybe you can send higgs singlets, or pigs in a blanket or whatever, but they won’t contain any information.
INFORMATION cannot travel faster than the speed of light. It’s up to you to figure out what isn’t information.
I explained this before but as usual nobody was listening.
You’re not listening still.
Tell my Dad to schedule his MRI a week earlier.
Wow…I’m surprised this post is still available. It doesn’t render well in IE21 (beta) though.
#36, ML,
That’s better than pedro’s excuse. He doesn’t read.
#41, Kyle,
It could be because you are still using Windoze Galaxy. If you get rid of that piece of bloatware and use Windoze Universal Business, Home Premium Standard Deluxe Edition for Right Handed WASPs you shouldn’t have a problem.
I still don’t understand how they got all that power into only a 4 terabite Operating System. How did we survive before UB?
I suppose it’s just a coincidence that this post appears in this location?
#39: ubiquitous talking head said,
“INFORMATION cannot travel faster than the speed of light.”
you will (hopefully) soon come to learn that c is the Minimum speed of light, not the maximum..
-s